this is r t tonight war waste and wages spell out israel's choices in a parliamentary election under way with voters expected to forge an even more hardline government at the ballot got the latest coming up. this while the israeli settlers flocking to the polling booth to push where they think the country's borders should lie we're also hearing about the bargain hunters spearheading the charge into occupied lands another side of the story coming up to. stuff a century of cooperation taken with a pinch of salt german and french leaders on a fifty years of the post-war alliance and with sharp political and economic divide casting a shadow over the celebrations. and the complete information blackout american

citizens are spied upon by their own f.b.i. the bureau of refusing to explain why they're tracking and who they're tracking. all over again even if you just joined us it's coming over here at the new center tonight now eight pm moscow time first israel is reporting a record turnout with millions queuing at ballot boxes nationwide for the snap parliamentary election but few doubt who will win with predictions of an even more right wing and hardline government at the core of the vote three issues rocketing living costs their rents nuclear ambitions the peace deadlock with the palestinians . compromising stance prime minister binyamin the specter to not only hold on to power but solidify sway over israel's strategic alliances polls and public.

patients in general grey that it's the center left leaning parties who are expected to be the net loses question baskins cochairman of the israel palestine research information center he holds little hope for progress towards peace with palestine now. since the government of israel hasn't done anything to move the peace process forward in the last four years we shouldn't expect any change the government will continue to hold to its position that there is no partner on the palestinian side that the leadership of mahmoud abbas is not a leadership which wants peace in the eyes of the israeli government and therefore the israeli government will attempt to keep the status quo in place which has been rather comfortable for israel we have had no real terrorism there's no uprising taking place in the palestinian territories the separation of the west bank and gaza has played into israel's interest and i think that the government of israel will seek to preserve the status quo for as long as possible the question is whether or not the international community will move beyond words in its isolation policies of israel if there will be economic sanctions or other political sanctions

that we've yet to see but i think that an increasingly hardline israeli government will push the international community toward more isolationist policies toward israel well one of most pressing a divisive issues of this election has been settlements a thing that the rights campaigned on tirelessly but one perspective to the issue infiltrating the ranks of diehard settlers filmmaker nimrod came known for his prank documentaries as this from the west bank. my name is the more than israeli citizen living here among. you one housing crisis at all time high the thing is there is another one in jerusalem but i can also live among arabs and i think i can get that much better deal he was over the. same would like to see the flood to buy i'm here with some investors from england. we want to invest in this area because i'm hearing the property value might go up

to one flat is one million shekels his father's flat in the building that this whole new area called zero eight and he one begins after those heels despite a few haters in the us almost all these really critical parties support the building and selling of charming flats on palestinian land the latest talks he won east of jerusalem hello i'm here to show a new client wants to buy property in this area is a big one investor understand is the only building currently built but if i can show him more. hills more outposts. and no one except. two state solution who cares as long as the property is cheap is a jew man leaving i want to cash in on my jewishness and i be in touch with my roots. so it's all jewish yeah yeah any known jewish parts because.

not. many people say he is not being constructive in the peace process but look how many settlements it constructed i'm hoping. to build a new settlement. this is the future for israel i believe and i'm afraid that if i buy the house and i get a document saying it's mine some day palestinians can scam and say no it's not yours because i keep listening to that in the. you see. there's history to there's just one thing and. it's funny how those small actions had like international meaning. the moving of stones like monumentally. it's like messing with international law. is the most disputed area you never notice it just because people told us. but he

says it is like a good place to build a new flat you think they'll be like because my friends want to be like to buy something before we even construct and i was coming up and. it says this is the fail stone being set for the new god willing a few one facing the holy capital of his i pay so much money for rent in london anyone in london and here. and in the big city thing is cheaper and more comfortable it all starts here so beautiful all of us is ours. you can look down at palestinians this is the new area being built up as if you want i just call this real estate it's called hideout three they send all the flats in this part of town and they say no to say peace officer and whoever be evacuated today selling more and more. of the city and all the bills are you should be jewish labor. should.

i want to see it going to agent to get the legalities. of. you selling your house by any chance if. i had my house.

well earlier mcculloch mister now i talked to the man behind the film about his real estate to through occupied territory demoed camera painted a very opportunist picture of settlement mentality some of the people i talked to never going to give up their house like the ninety's the heavily. into the settlement of the entire west bank and the told me that jordan is also the kind of part of the jewish to just call they told me that if someone is going to a victim which they don't believe in but if you're going to happen they're going to even make more money because the government will pay them compensation for the victims if you just go by if you can sell it to local jewish americans so did you actually buy into this. i mean i bought money with me and i didn't go all the way there but just got the best deal and i almost bought it because i know what why don't i it was that if it's such a good deal you can make lots of money presumably. yeah i mean. i am

jewish actually not all the way. so the two parties are vying for one hundred twenty seats in the knesset and already their leaders are talking coalitions and the division of power will of course keep you updated with news and analysis of what they're up to throughout the day and beyond the closer polls to which are set to close at eight o'clock g.m.t. . how will tensions with to run develop rule sets over to expunge isolate john there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will not in you know who survive his snap election on january twenty second. israel decides on arts and . lots of glitz and glass in berlin as german and french leaders celebrate fifty years of their country's alliance the hugs and handshakes come despite their not yet agreeing on how to cure the eurozone debt contagion or even have overcome those deep foreign policy divisions the setting whether there's more lows and highs than

in franco german relations now is artie's peter oliver. well it's certainly a meeting that's filled with pomp and circumstance but they as they celebrate the formalizing of the friendship between former foes what we are seeing though is that the hoping that the celebration can paper over some of the divisions between europe's power couple of course france and germany the two major economies and the well the two biggest voices in europe really when it comes to how to tackle the eurozone crisis all around wants to see more spending to promote growth where is. stuck to her guns saying it's only through austerity that any kind of problems in the eurozone can be perhaps fixed now there's also rising concern here in germany over the state of the french economy the german people and german finance is looking to thinking well we don't want to get caught up cold if you'll recall and he sneezes it was

a expected that the french economy went into recession at the end of twenty twelve hours also when it comes to matters of defense military might is germany and france not agreeing that front certainly pursuing a policy of intervention we've seen not in libya we're also seeing that right now in mali where is germany they have said that they were going to contribute any of their troops in this was backed up with here in germany and a key member of angler merkel's christian democrat party but he said that germany didn't want to be a major player in foreign policy said going on to say that well after hitler and auschwitz how could they be a major player so there is a difference there between how france views its place in the wider world and how germany based on well the two countries relative history so this meeting all smiles and handshakes however that there are some deep underlying cracks in the relationship between europe power couple. well in base political scientist it is

when cliff believes that from so a lot of the times to counterbalance germany's will start to push will only prolong you were not getting. well i mean certainly that was something that was very important for him in his election campaign and it was an important aspect in getting him elected and he has had this minor success of having the growth pact added to the fiscal pact but you know i think that i'm going i'm active and probably are very focused on their start of politics and i don't think there'll be an agreement that required before the cold war it was germany that carried the economic weight and france that carried the political weight now there has been a shift towards political weight for germany as well at least from a french perspective so that certainly has made cooperation more difficult coming very soon under the quality of tempers in the russian capital my gay rights generally moscow sees the sheer scope of misuse as church activities taguig campaign is a commerce of it will bring it on but in a few minutes also jordan prepares for not palm tree election with the u.s.

back more like he said it's the beginning of reform but the powerful muslim brotherhoods boycotting the vote saying it's a gimmick. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture.

speak your language. your music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn a tip angles keep these stories. so you hear. the spanish find out more visit i. have been kept in the dark about harlow and why they're being followed by the nation's security agency civil liberties groups in the u.s. ask the f.b.i. to spell out what techniques it's using when it tracked citizens but it got into khan explains the reply raised more questions than answers. everybody knows that the f.b.i. uses all sorts of tracking devices on cars cell phones and whatnot everything that

can carry g.p.s. the american civil liberties union filed the request under the freedom of information act asking for the justice department to review the f.b.i.'s guidelines their internal memos as to how and under what circumstances they track people as of now there is no clear understanding among americans of when they will be subjected to tracking possibly for months at a time or whether the government will first get a warrant this is the justice department's response more than one hundred pages of completely redacted material except for the title so to the question how when and why the government can track its citizens the f.b.i. responded with this takes a lot of ink to print out something like this some artistic souls may think of the painting black swear by live each we're certainly not sure of the artistic intentions of the u.s. justice department or the meanings they put into these black pages but for civil liberties advocates here this is what government secrecy looks like actually it was

last month when president obama signed a bill that essentially allows the government to spy on anyone they want under some kind of a general warrant as opposed to an individual word in other words it allows the national security agency to vacuum up as much private communication as possible with something like a promise on the authorities part to be really careful about when and how they look at it but civil liberties advocates argue that the bill of rights is not about the government's promises of good intentions but about legal guarantees so president obama may be very convincing when he talks about individual freedoms we heard the words in his inaugural speech this monday. but here is the f.b.i. version of their freedom. helpful well professor journalism christmas chambers joins me now live from washington to talk about this bit more thanks for being with us professor much appreciate it i mean surely intelligence agencies need to keep some things private in the name of national security no. yes they do

and there are exceptions to that in the freedom of information act there are nine exceptions as a matter of fact and i'm sure the f.b.i. has tried to to to put their redaction of the black pages in all nine of those of those exceptions however there is only really one that stands out and that is the law enforcement exception and that begs the question is whether spying on american citizens is law enforcement law enforcement excuse me and again that united states court has addressed that yet and indeed even under that exception if there are facts and figures that can be released they must be released and of course the f.b.i. can go back and say well if that's so intertwined with our decision making process that's the language of the exception then we don't have to release it so it's a game it's basically a very bizarre game what does it say about privacy for u.s.

citizens these days. well if it says that we should be worried and we should be worried on two fronts because you have to understand that in the united states we not only have the government spying on us but we have corporate interests spying on us you know sometimes in cahoots with the government for security reasons and sometimes just to milk more money out of us so we have a basically a two tier system of privacy that is being frittered away one by the government as evidenced by what the f.b.i. is doing the other by corporate interests who are trying to figure out what we buy when we buy who our friends are and what they buy. what's the next step for civil liberties groups in the u.s. can they hope to get their hands on information about how american is a big threat i think the next step for civil liberties groups in the united states is essentially what they probably intended in the first place which.

retrenched is to file some kind of lawsuit. it would be probably better if civil war civil liberties organizations joined with american media to request this information because under these exceptions to the freedom of information act there is probably more of a stronger public interest a first amendment of the constitution interest in a news organization asking for this information rather than an advocacy group because the government can then say well a news organization has to report the news and that's in the public interest civil liberties advocates are just going to sue us so ironically that gives that that bootstraps basically their argument so they where they can't produce it or redacted whereas if a news organization are requesting information they'd be a little less likely to use that excuse but in the end it's all going to have to

come down to a judge russia journalism christopher chambers thank you very much for being on the program tonight appreciate it. cribbing office of tasty profits while millions struggle to feed themselves under fire for forcing a crisis to stoking starvation by exploiting the futures market we're talking about online tonight also while you're online as well one of the this japan over leader told to hurry up and die by the new finance minister who says all people cost too much to keep alive r.t. dot com want more. gay rights campaign is in moscow have rallied against the so-called gay propaganda law being considered in russia but their public kissing campaign tactics lead to trouble as cannot has got the story several dozen gay rights activists straight staging a kissing flash mob in moscow right outside the city duma were interrupted by a group of radical orthodox christians who didn't hesitate to use their fists as

you can see to stop them as a result several people were injured including some journalists the police did detain the attackers the protesters said that the rally was against a draft law banning gay propaganda in the city it's really not clear from this draft what propaganda is so they're afraid they're going to have to go underground to see that it's a tendency in russia for such gay rights rallies to end in skirmishes with radical anti gay rights activists but it's not something which only happens in russia just recently we have seen several members of the ukrainian women's group firman attacked in paris by a radical anti gay rights activists of the girls at some point even had to run from with the angry crowd and the police had to step in to evacuate them to safety. other world news headlines like car bombs have killed seventeen people left dozens injured in and around baghdad speed would say one of the blast with

a busy market in the north of the iraqi capital around midday these two soldiers were among those killed and twelve more people wounded two earlier in the day a suicide car bombing targeting a checkpoint south of the city killed five wounded fourteen more called in. italy set to become another nation now backing france's combat action against islamist in mali the country's lawmakers will consider the proposed offer of logistical support for the french army meanwhile britain says it may boost its military assistance to so far it sent two warplanes to the conflict so the move follows a deadly hostage crisis in neighboring algeria which was in retaliation for france's invasion at least thirty seven foreign nationals were killed during the terrorist siege of a gas plant store reinforces the weekend. in south africa thousands of protesters angry at plans to merge their region with the poorer neighboring municipality have clashed with police officers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the third day of riot police three police move been injured more

than one hundred eighty two testers arrested. after two years of simmering and sometimes violent protests against corruption and inept authorities jordan's finally getting a parliamentary election the king called the vote to appease those demanding change but his new reports for us next it threatens to push the country further into crisis beneath the calm facade here in jordan is a simmering crisis the kingdom has remained relatively stable amid the wave of regimes falling in the arab spring wednesday's parliamentary elections are part of the reform efforts undertaken by the government in an attempt to quell popular dissatisfaction anathema. i'm optimistic that our political system has taken a big step forward if a parliament wants to enjoy respect the very first thing it needs is to be elected as a result of a fair election that's what our future parliament is going to be but a balanced parliament just something that is highly unlikely to come out of this

election it's being boycotted by georgia's most powerful political movement the muslim brotherhood citing a new law that critics claim gives an unfair advantage to regime loyalists the islamists and their allies have branded the elections as worthless. one of the most like why do people take part in the spectacle called the parliamentary elections elections the way they are now and all the potential rules the way they are cannot be taken seriously they do not represent the people's will band in many mideast states up until the arab spring jordan's branch of the muslim brotherhood has been a licensed political party for decades but seeing as own contemporaries come to power in egypt and tunisia it is now openly seeking a much larger role one muslim one of. the muslim brotherhood a boycotting the elections because this lore is not in their interest but other parties are boycotting the elections because they will be held according to democratic law. there to meet with king abdullah and says that he's serious about

reform but there are other threats on the horizon. our main problem is economic unemployment and inflation are rising at the same time that the cost of products is soaring there is considerable unrest among the population was the country has long struggled economically and relies heavily on aid from western and gulf donors last november saw an eruption of violence nationwide protests over cuts in food and fuel subsidies one of the conditions imposed by the i.m.f. for a two billion dollar emergency loan and other financial and political. cern is the flood of syrian refugees hundreds of thousands have fled to jordan with more pouring over the border every day there are worries that the syrian conflict may follow its people into the kingdom what islam is striving for more power a tough situation on the border and a dire economic crisis jordan

a spine itself caught between a rock and a hard place due to the boycott the elections are unlikely to produce any meaningful change in the once the same old kingdom looks to be in for a long period of uncertainty you see count one of our t. amman jordan. twenty six pm moscow time coming up party's cause report on the two faces of u.s. policing i'm kevin though it will be back in thirty five minutes of morning. i'm here with some investors filming them ok i'm here to show you by mostly by property in this area i mean no jewish boy. no no exception ok so the state solution. with. those boats are

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